2024-01-23 15:06:40
The Land Creates Life association calls for counteracting obesity with nutrition education at school and thus promoting the health of society.
Vienna (OTS) – On average, Austrians spend just over 61 years of their lives healthy. If you look at our life expectancy, that’s not particularly long: men live to almost 79 years old on average, and women almost 84 years old. Austria also performs poorly in an EU comparison and is well below average when it comes to healthy years of life. One of the reasons for this is the high prevalence of diseases of civilization such as cardiovascular diseases or diabetes. These often have their origins, among other things, in an incorrect diet. Because overweight and obesity can greatly increase the risk of such non-communicable diseases. This should be counteracted with appropriate school education in the area of food and nutrition, demands Maria Fanninger, founder of the Land Creates Life association:
“More than a quarter of children and young people in Austria are overweight and are therefore at greater risk of later developing diseases of civilization such as diabetes or cancer – and the number is increasing. Young people should know how to stay healthy with a balanced diet. This is an enormously effective lever for counteracting this development. That’s why, for me, nutrition education absolutely belongs in the lessons in our schools, just as naturally as reading, writing and arithmetic.”
The food focus: support for educators
With the Austria-wide education initiative Food focus The Land Creates Life association supports educators in passing on food knowledge, nutrition education and consumer skills to children and young people. What a health-preserving diet looks like is also the subject of the numerous methodically and didactically prepared teaching materials, as is knowledge regarding the production of food and conscious food consumption. With the free materials on these relevant topics, every Austrian educator can individually set a food focus in his or her class – and thereby do something to ensure that children and young people can spend as many years of their life as possible healthily.
Questions & Contact:
Carmen Brüggler, communication
Land creates life
8970 Schladming | 1010 Vienna
T: 01 89 06 458
presse@landschafftleben.at
1706022433
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